Millard County Chronicle | 1916-05-18 | Page 6 | Gerard Defended by Berlin.

GERARD DEFENDED BY BERLIN. Charges That Ambassador is Anti-German Denounced as Slanders. Berlin. In the censorship -debate in the ways and means committee of the reichstag protests were uttered against the restraints on the discussion of American affairs and the American ambassador. A representative of the foreign office told the members that charges against Ambassador Gerard were being circulated subterraneously in the newspaper world, these alleging alleg-ing anti-German sympathies and acts on the part of Mr. Gerard. They were nothing more than "tittle-tattle and slanders," said the foreign office spokesman, and it was obviously the government's duty and the mandate of international courtesy to protect a representative rep-resentative of a friendly power from such attacks.